
Elevate your wound care expertise with the comprehensive and visually rich "Wound Care Made Incredibly Visual!®, 3rd Edition." This updated guide is designed to help you deliver effective wound care with skill and confidence through its expert direction and real-life images.
Dive into the world of wound care with this colorfully illustrated text that walks you through fundamental concepts, essential skills, and the latest treatments to achieve positive outcomes. Stay current with the newest products and procedures as you prepare to excel both in the classroom and on the unit, the engaging Incredibly Visual ™ way. With clear explanations and an abundance of images, this guide simplifies the crucial steps of effective wound care.
Master the basics of wound care, including concepts, skills, phases, and complications, with:
- New and updated photos and graphics that enhance your understanding
- Revised content featuring the latest wound care techniques and interventions
- Over 100 colorful images that demystify the complexities of wound care—detailed photos, charts, and drawings that reinforce key concepts in memorable ways
- Concise text that breaks down the fundamentals and advancements in wound care into clear, digestible terms
- Visual learning aids with numerous images demonstrating skills and interventions, covering:
- Skin anatomy and physiology—understanding skin layers and their functions
- Wound healing—exploring types of wound healing, healing phases, and potential complications
- Wound assessment—learning to recognize failure to heal
- Effects of aging on wound healing
- Differences between acute and chronic wounds
- Pressure injuries
- Vascular ulcers
- Diabetic foot ulcers
- Malignant wounds
This guide serves as an ideal on-the-spot reference and review for nursing students, new nurses, and other healthcare practitioners. It's an excellent teaching aid, offering seasoned, step-by-step guidance supported by images that depict real-life patient care scenarios.
Key chapter features include:
- Chapter content summaries at the start of each chapter to guide your learning
- End-of-chapter Q&A sections with games and quizzes, such as multiple-choice or fill-in-the-blank questions, word games, and matching images to wound care concepts, to reinforce your learning
- Expert insights and encouraging advice from "Nurse Joy and Jake" throughout the text
- Illustrated interventions that showcase real-life patient scenarios in the "Take note" sections
About the Clinical Editor:
Patricia Albano Slachta, PhD, APRN, ACNS-BC, CWOCN, is the President of Nursing Educational Programs and Services in Ridgeland, South Carolina.
ISBN 10: 1496398262
ISBN 13: 9781496398260